Word: suppression
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...speech in which Walesa boldly rebuked the government. When the authorities decided to broadcast the incident on national television, thousands of sympathizers around the country took to the streets. Walesa and other opposition leaders contrived to dampen the fervor of the crowds, and the militia managed to suppress the dissent without much difficulty. Still there was a message in last week's outbursts: though Solidarity may be nonexistent on paper, it is still very much alive in spirit...
Evasiveness is another characteristic that foreign businessmen may encounter. The Japanese, who frequently learn to suppress their views out of deference to their seniors, often hate to be pinned down. Add to this the Japanese tendency to tell listeners what they seem to want to hear and a negotiator can easily go astray...
...historians like to pretend that they are not the people who make history. Self-conscious about their central role in carving out a portrait of the past, they lapse into academic mumbling. Pick a manageable (small) subject, process enough data, arrange all available figures into charts and graphs, studiously suppress any hint of narrative judgment or point of view, and truth will be served. As a result, libraries are filling up with inaccessible accuracy, exhaustively researched big books on tiny topics. But facts do not speak for themselves; they are not even facts until someone formulates them. History is always...
Like X rays, UV radiation can alter cell DNA, producing the mutations associated with cancer. "Both UVA and UVB are carcinogenic," says Harvard Photobiologist Madhu Pathak. UV also appears to suppress the body's immune system. This may explain why certain viral infections, such as chicken pox and fever blisters, become more severe in the sun. And since the immune system is believed to play a role in preventing tumor growth, its suppression "may also be an aggravating factor in the development of skin cancer," says Dr. Margaret Kripke of the National Cancer Institute...
...morning. Emerging, she said about the collapse of Stern's publishing plans, "It's terrible. But no matter what happens, we will always believe in the diaries." She charged that the West German officials who had declared the books fraudulent were really trying to "suppress the truth." She and her husband have friends among former Nazi officers. When they were married, two former Nazi generals served as official witnesses. "It would have been a joy to tell the reality about the Führer," she said...